On New Years eve we were camping for a 50th Birthday Party and we ripped a small section between the side and the floor of the tent. Can we repair this ourselves. It is only a Nylon tent. Or is it better to get it done by someone.

Okay finally got around to fixing the tent. Well... sort of. I bought one of the Nylon repair patch kits and got to work sewing the hole up and gluing the patch on. Only time will tell if the job was any good. If it doesn't work i will put another patch on the outside of the tent in the same spot as the one on the inside and stitch them together. Heres hoping anyway! The tent has only been used for REAL camping once at Mungo brush which really annoys me that on the last time we used it only for a night at a 50th it rips!

TUFF wrote:It is a Jackaroo Stockman Weekender. We have only used it 3 times. The fella that helped me put it up had never put that type of tent up before and i think he was a little tough on it.

Josh

A "little" rough ? more like a big rough .Hope it works.I have a mossie coil burn in my tent that i need to repair in case it grows,i also have a stuck zipper which would be under warranty but do you think i can find the receipt.I have a file which all important papers go in but it is not there.

I did some stitching on it today as the floor was still torn away from the wall and it only had a nylon patch glued over it on the inside which i knew wouldn't hold when we needed it to. I stitched it up and tried to pull the join apart and it didn't tear which is good! Means we dont have to buy a new tent!!

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Cheers

Josh

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It is good to see that the repair kits do such a good job, I have a small rip to repair on my tent after I caught the inner tent section on a spring on the trampoline which I had the tent draped over to dry out after our last trip away.